111.70 (4) (cm) (title) Methods for peaceful settlement of disputes; other personnel general municipal employees. 1. `Notice of commencement of contract negotiations.' For the purpose of advising the commission of the commencement of contract negotiations involving a collective bargaining unit containing general municipal employees, whenever either party requests the other to reopen negotiations under a binding collective bargaining agreement, or the parties otherwise commence negotiations if no such agreement exists, the party requesting negotiations shall immediately notify the commission in writing. Upon failure of the requesting party to provide such notice, the other party may so notify the commission. The notice shall specify the expiration date of the existing collective bargaining agreement, if any, and shall set forth any additional information the commission may require on a form provided by the commission.
2. `Presentation of initial proposals; open meetings.' The meetings between parties to a collective bargaining agreement or proposed collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter which that involve a collective bargaining unit containing a general municipal employee and that are held for the purpose of presenting initial bargaining proposals, along with supporting rationale, shall be open to the public. Each party shall submit its initial bargaining proposals to the other party in writing. Failure to comply with this subdivision is not cause to invalidate a collective bargaining agreement under this subchapter.
3. `Mediation.' The commission or its designee shall function as mediator in labor disputes involving general municipal employees upon request of one or both of the parties, or upon initiation of the commission. The function of the mediator shall be to encourage voluntary settlement by the parties. No mediator has the power of compulsion.
4. `Grievance arbitration.' Parties to a dispute pertaining to the meaning or application of the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement involving a collective bargaining unit containing a general municipal employee may agree in writing to have the commission or any other appropriate agency serve as arbitrator or may designate any other competent, impartial and disinterested person to so serve.
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237. 111.70 (4) (cm) 5., 6., 7., 7g., 7r. and 8. of the statutes are repealed.
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238. 111.70 (4) (cm) 8m. of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (4) (cm) 8m. `Term of agreement; reopening of negotiations.' Except for the initial collective bargaining agreement between the parties and except as the parties otherwise agree, every collective bargaining agreement covering general municipal employees subject to this paragraph shall be for a term of 2 years, but in no case may a collective bargaining agreement for any collective bargaining unit consisting of municipal employees subject to this paragraph other than school district employees be for a term exceeding 3 years nor may a collective bargaining agreement for any collective bargaining unit consisting of school district employees subject to this paragraph be for a term exceeding 4 years one year and may not be extended. No arbitration award may contain a provision for reopening of negotiations during the term of a collective bargaining agreement, covering general municipal employees may be reopened for negotiations unless both parties agree to such a provision reopen the collective bargaining agreement. The requirement for agreement by both parties does not apply to a provision for reopening of negotiations with respect to any portion of an agreement that is declared invalid by a court or administrative agency or rendered invalid by the enactment of a law or promulgation of a federal regulation.
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239. 111.70 (4) (cm) 9. of the statutes is repealed.
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240. 111.70 (4) (d) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (4) (d) 2. a. The commission shall determine the appropriate collective bargaining unit for the purpose of collective bargaining and shall whenever possible, unless otherwise required under this subchapter, avoid fragmentation by maintaining as few collective bargaining units as practicable in keeping with the size of the total municipal workforce. In making such a determination, the The commission may decide whether, in a particular case, the municipal employees in the same or several departments, divisions, institutions, crafts, professions, or other occupational groupings constitute a collective bargaining unit. Before making its determination, the commission may provide an opportunity for the municipal employees concerned to determine, by secret ballot, whether they desire to be established as a separate collective bargaining unit. The commission shall
may not decide, however, that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both professional employees and nonprofessional employees, unless a majority of the professional employees vote for inclusion in the unit. The commission may not decide that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both school district employees and general municipal employees who are not school district employees. The commission may not decide that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both public safety employees and general municipal employees. The commission shall may not decide that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both craft employees and noncraft employees unless a majority of the craft employees vote for inclusion in the unit. The commission shall place the professional employees who are assigned to perform any services at a charter school, as defined in s. 115.001 (1), in a separate collective bargaining unit from a unit that includes any other professional employees whenever at least 30% of those professional employees request an election to be held to determine that issue and a majority of the professional employees at the charter school who cast votes in the election decide to be represented in a separate collective bargaining unit. Upon the expiration of any collective bargaining agreement in force, the commission shall combine into a single collective bargaining unit 2 or more collective bargaining units consisting of school district employees if a majority of the employees voting in each collective bargaining unit vote to combine. Any vote taken under this subsection shall be by secret ballot.
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241. 111.70 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (4) (d) 3. a. Whenever, in a particular case, a question arises concerning representation or appropriate unit, calling for a vote, the commission shall certify the results in writing to the municipal employer and the labor organization involved and to any other interested parties.
c. Any ballot used in a representation proceeding under this subdivision shall include the names of all persons having an interest in representing or the results. The ballot should be so designed as to permit a vote against representation by any candidate named on the ballot. The findings of the commission, on which a certification is based, shall be conclusive unless reviewed as provided by s. 111.07 (8).
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242. 111.70 (4) (d) 3. b. of the statutes is created to read:
111.70 (4) (d) 3. b. Annually, the commission shall conduct an election to certify the representative of the collective bargaining unit that contains a general municipal employee. The election shall occur no later than December 1 for a collective bargaining unit containing school district employees and no later than May 1 for a collective bargaining unit containing general municipal employees who are not school district employees. The commission shall certify any representative that receives at least 51 percent of the votes of all of the general municipal employees in the collective bargaining unit. If no representative receives at least 51 percent of the votes of all of the general municipal employees in the collective bargaining unit, at the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, the commission shall decertify the current representative and the general municipal employees shall be nonrepresented. Notwithstanding sub. (2), if a representative is decertified under this subd. 3. b., the affected general municipal employees may not be included in a substantially similar collective bargaining unit for 12 months from the date of decertification.
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243. 111.70 (4) (L) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (4) (L) Strikes prohibited.
Except as authorized under par. (cm) 5. and 6. c., nothing Nothing contained in this subchapter constitutes a grant of the right to strike by any municipal employee or labor organization, and such strikes are hereby expressly prohibited. Paragraph (cm) does not authorize any strike after an injunction has been issued against such strike under sub. (7m).
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244. 111.70 (4) (m) of the statutes is repealed.
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245. 111.70 (4) (mb) of the statutes is created to read:
111.70 (4) (mb) Prohibited subjects of bargaining; general municipal employees. The municipal employer is prohibited from bargaining collectively with a collective bargaining unit containing a general municipal employee with respect to any of the following:
1. Any factor or condition of employment except wages, which includes only total base wages and excludes any other compensation, which includes, but is not limited to, overtime, premium pay, merit pay, performance pay, supplemental compensation, pay schedules, and automatic pay progressions.
2. Except as provided in s. 66.0506 or 118.245, whichever is applicable, any proposal that does any of the following:
a. If there is an increase in the consumer price index change, provides for total base wages for authorized positions in the proposed collective bargaining agreement that exceeds the total base wages for authorized positions 180 days before the expiration of the previous collective bargaining agreement by a greater percentage than the consumer price index change.
b. If there is a decrease in the consumer price index change, provides for total base wages for authorized positions in the proposed collective bargaining agreement that exceeds the total base wages for authorized positions 180 days before the expiration of the previous collective bargaining agreement decreased by a percentage of that expenditure that is equal to the decrease in the consumer price index change.
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246. 111.70 (4) (mc) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (4) (mc) Prohibited subjects of bargaining; public safety employees. (intro.) The municipal employer is prohibited from bargaining collectively with a collective bargaining unit containing a public safety employee with respect to any of the following:
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247. 111.70 (4) (mc) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
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248. 111.70 (4) (n) and (o) of the statutes are repealed.
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249. 111.70 (6) of the statutes is repealed.
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250. 111.70 (7) of the statutes is repealed.
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251. 111.70 (7m) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
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252. 111.70 (7m) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (7m) (c) 1. a. Any labor organization that represents public safety employees which violates sub. (4) (L) shall be penalized by the suspension of may not collect any dues check-off under a collective bargaining agreement and or under a fair-share agreement between the municipal employer and such labor organization from any public safety employee covered by either agreement for a period of one year. At the end of the period of suspension, any such agreement shall be reinstated unless the labor organization is no longer authorized to represent the municipal public safety employees covered by such dues check-off the collective bargaining agreement or fair-share agreement or the agreement is no longer in effect.
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253. 111.70 (7m) (c) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
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254. 111.70 (7m) (e) and (f) of the statutes are repealed.
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255. 111.70 (8) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.70 (8) (a) This section, except subs. (1) (nm), sub. (4) (cm) and (7m), applies to law enforcement supervisors employed by a 1st class city. This section, except subs. (1) (nm), sub. (4) (cm) and (jm) and (7m), applies to law enforcement supervisors employed by a county having a population of 500,000 or more. For purposes of such application, the term terms "municipal employee" includes and "public safety employee" include such a supervisor.
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256. 111.71 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.71 (2) The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a complaint alleging that a prohibited practice has been committed under s. 111.70 (3). The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that the commission act as an arbitrator to resolve a dispute involving the interpretation or application of a collective bargaining agreement under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 2. or (cm) 4. The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that the commission initiate fact-finding under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 3. The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that the commission act as a mediator under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 1. or (cm) 3. The commission shall assess and collect a filing fee for filing a request that the commission initiate compulsory, final and binding arbitration under s. 111.70 (4) (cm) 6. or (jm) or 111.77 (3). For the performance of commission actions under ss. 111.70 (4) (c) 1., 2. and 3., (cm) 3., and 4. and 6., and (jm) and 111.77 (3), the commission shall require that the parties to the dispute equally share in the payment of the fee and, for the performance of commission actions involving a complaint alleging that a prohibited practice has been committed under s. 111.70 (3), the commission shall require that the party filing the complaint pay the entire fee. If any party has paid a filing fee requesting the commission to act as a mediator for a labor dispute and the parties do not enter into a voluntary settlement of the dispute, the commission may not subsequently assess or collect a filing fee to initiate fact-finding or arbitration to resolve the same labor dispute. If any request for the performance of commission actions concerns issues arising as a result of more than one unrelated event or occurrence, each such separate event or occurrence shall be treated as a separate request. The commission shall promulgate rules establishing a schedule of filing fees to be paid under this subsection. Fees required to be paid under this subsection shall be paid at the time of filing the complaint or the request for fact-finding, mediation or arbitration. A complaint or request for fact-finding, mediation or arbitration is not filed until the date such fee or fees are paid, except that the failure of the respondent party to pay the filing fee for having the commission initiate compulsory, final and binding arbitration under s. 111.70 (4) (cm) 6. or (jm) or 111.77 (3) shall may not prohibit the commission from initiating such arbitration. The commission may initiate collection proceedings against the respondent party for the payment of the filing fee. Fees collected under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.425 (1) (i).
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257. 111.71 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
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258. 111.71 (5) of the statutes is repealed.
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259. 111.77 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.77 Settlement of disputes in collective bargaining units composed of law enforcement personnel and fire fighters. (intro.) In fire departments and city and county law enforcement agencies municipal Municipal employers and employees public safety employees, as provided in sub. (8), have the duty to bargain collectively in good faith including the duty to refrain from strikes or lockouts and to comply with the procedures set forth below following:
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260. 111.77 (8) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.77 (8) (a) This section applies to law enforcement public safety employees who are supervisors employed by a county having a population of 500,000 or more. For purposes of such application, the term "municipal employee" includes such a supervisor.
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261. 111.80 of the statutes is repealed.
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262. 111.81 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.81 (1) "Collective bargaining" means the performance of the mutual obligation of the state as an employer, by its officers and agents, and the representatives of its employees, to meet and confer at reasonable times, in good faith, with respect to the subjects of bargaining provided in s. 111.91 (1), with respect to public safety employees, and to the subjects of bargaining provided in s. 111.91 (3), with respect to general employees, with the intention of reaching an agreement, or to resolve questions arising under such an agreement. The duty to bargain, however, does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require the making of a concession. Collective bargaining includes the reduction of any agreement reached to a written and signed document.
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263. 111.81 (3h) of the statutes is repealed.
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264. 111.81 (3n) of the statutes is created to read:
111.81 (3n) "Consumer price index change" means the average annual percentage change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, as determined by the federal department of labor, for the 12 months immediately preceding the current date.
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265. 111.81 (7) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
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266. 111.81 (7) (gm), (h) and (i) of the statutes are created to read:
111.81 (7) (gm) Research assistants of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Extension.
(h) Research assistants of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
(i) Research assistants of the Universities of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Parkside, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point, Stout, Superior, and Whitewater.
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267. 111.81 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.81 (9) "Fair-share agreement" means an agreement between the employer and a labor organization representing public safety employees or supervisors specified in s. 111.825 (5) under which all of the public safety employees or supervisors in a collective bargaining unit are required to pay their proportionate share of the cost of the collective bargaining process and contract administration measured by the amount of dues uniformly required of all members.
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268. 111.81 (9g) of the statutes is created to read:
111.81 (9g) "General employee" means an employee who is not a public safety employee.
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269. 111.81 (9k) of the statutes is repealed.
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270. 111.81 (12) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.81 (12) (intro.) "Labor organization" means any employee organization whose purpose is to represent employees in collective bargaining with the employer, or its agents, on matters pertaining to terms and conditions of employment that are subject to collective bargaining under s. 111.91 (1) or (3), whichever is applicable; but the term shall not include any organization:
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271. 111.81 (12m) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.81 (12m) "Maintenance of membership agreement" means an agreement between the employer and a labor organization representing public safety employees or supervisors specified in s. 111.825 (5) which requires that all of the public safety employees or supervisors whose dues are being deducted from earnings under s. 20.921 (1) or 111.84 (1) (f) at the time the agreement takes effect shall continue to have dues deducted for the duration of the agreement, and that dues shall be deducted from the earnings of all public safety employees or supervisors who are hired on or after the effective date of the agreement.
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272. 111.81 (15r) of the statutes is created to read:
111.81 (15r) "Public safety employee" means any individual under s. 40.02 (48) (am) 7. or 8.
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273. 111.81 (16) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.81 (16) "Referendum" means a proceeding conducted by the commission in which public safety employees, or supervisors specified in s. 111.825 (5), in a collective bargaining unit may cast a secret ballot on the question of directing the labor organization and the employer to enter into a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement or to terminate such an agreement.
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274. 111.815 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.815 (1) In the furtherance of this subchapter, the state shall be considered as a single employer and employment relations policies and practices throughout the state service shall be as consistent as practicable. The office shall negotiate and administer collective bargaining agreements except that the department of health services, subject to the approval of the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to use collective bargaining as the method of setting rates for reimbursement of home care providers, shall negotiate and administer collective bargaining agreements entered into with the collective bargaining unit specified in s. 111.825 (2g). To coordinate the employer position in the negotiation of agreements, the office, or the department of health services with regard to collective bargaining agreements entered into with the collective bargaining unit specified in s. 111.825 (2g), shall maintain close liaison with the legislature relative to the negotiation of agreements and the fiscal ramifications of those agreements. Except with respect to the collective bargaining units unit specified in s. 111.825 (1m), (2) (f), and (2g), the office is responsible for the employer functions of the executive branch under this subchapter, and shall coordinate its collective bargaining activities with operating state agencies on matters of agency concern. The legislative branch shall act upon those portions of tentative agreements negotiated by the office that require legislative action. With respect to the collective bargaining units specified in s. 111.825 (1m), the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Board is responsible for the employer functions under this subchapter. With respect to the collective bargaining unit specified in s. 111.825 (2) (f), the governing board of the charter school established by contract under s. 118.40 (2r) (cm) is responsible for the employer functions under this subchapter. With respect to the collective bargaining unit specified in s. 111.825 (2g), the department of health services is responsible for the employer functions of the executive branch under this subchapter.
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275. 111.815 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.815 (2) In the furtherance of the policy under s. 111.80 (4), the The director of the office shall, together with the appointing authorities or their representatives, represent the state in its responsibility as an employer under this subchapter except with respect to negotiations in the collective bargaining units unit specified in s. 111.825 (1m), (2) (f), and (2g). The director of the office shall establish and maintain, wherever practicable, consistent employment relations policies and practices throughout the state service.
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276. 111.82 of the statutes is amended to read:
111.82 Rights of employees. Employees
shall have the right of self-organization and the right to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing under this subchapter, and to engage in lawful, concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. Employees shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities. A general employee has the right to refrain from paying dues while remaining a member of a collective bargaining unit.
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277. 111.825 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.825 (1) (intro.) It is the legislative intent that in order to foster meaningful collective bargaining, units must be structured in such a way as to avoid excessive fragmentation whenever possible. In accordance with this policy, collective bargaining units for employees in the classified service of the state, except employees in the collective bargaining units specified in sub. (1m), are structured on a statewide basis with one collective bargaining unit for each of the following occupational groups:
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278. 111.825 (1) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
111.825 (1) (g) Public safety employees.
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279. 111.825 (1m) of the statutes is repealed.
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280. 111.825 (2g) of the statutes is repealed.
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281. 111.825 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.825 (3) The commission shall assign employees to the appropriate collective bargaining units set forth in subs. (1), (1m), and (2), and (2g).
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282. 111.825 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.825 (4) Any labor organization may petition for recognition as the exclusive representative of a collective bargaining unit specified in sub. (1), (1m), or (2), or (2g) in accordance with the election procedures set forth in s. 111.83, provided the petition is accompanied by a 30% showing of interest in the form of signed authorization cards. Each additional labor organization seeking to appear on the ballot shall file petitions within 60 days of the date of filing of the original petition and prove, through signed authorization cards, that at least 10% of the employees in the collective bargaining unit want it to be their representative.
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283. 111.825 (4m) of the statutes is repealed.
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284. 111.825 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
111.825 (5) Although supervisors are not considered employees for purposes of this subchapter, the commission may consider a petition for a statewide collective bargaining unit of professional supervisors or a statewide unit of nonprofessional supervisors in the classified service, but the representative of supervisors may not be affiliated with any labor organization representing employees. For purposes of this subsection, affiliation does not include membership in a national, state, county or municipal federation of national or international labor organizations. The certified representative of supervisors who are not public safety employees may not bargain collectively with respect to any matter other than wages and fringe benefits as provided in s. 111.91 (3), and the certified representative of supervisors who are public safety employees may not bargain collectively with respect to any matter other than wages and fringe benefits as provided in s. 111.91 (1).
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285. 111.825 (6) of the statutes is renumbered 111.825 (6) (a).
